He {Gautama} said to him: `Of what family are you, my friend?' He {Satyakama} replied: `I do not know, Sir, of what family I am. I asked my mother, and she answered: "In my youth when I had to move about much as a servant, I conceived thee. I do not know of what family thou art. I am Gabala by name, thou art Satyakama," I am therefore Satyakama Gabala, Sir.' would thus speak out. Go and fetch fuel, friend, I shall initiate you. You have not swerved from the truth.' Having initiated him, he chose four hundred lean and weak cows, and said: `Tend these, friend.' He drove them out and said to himself, `I shall not return unless I bring back a thousand.' He dwelt a number of years (in the forest), and when the cows had become a thousand,